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attfc Seventy-Seventh Year AIKEN, -WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12. 1946 JOHN NAY SPEAK TOUONSONHS EXPERIENCES Major John Hay.recently returned from- Germany where he was engaged as assistant prosecutor of the Nazis on trial there, addressed club at their regular monthly meeting Monday night, meeting was held at the Lions' clubhouse on Edgefield Road. will be May 17 and Ladies' Night The next meeting of the club will be observed. At this meeting all new officers will be installed.

NAVY RELEASES JAMES JOWERS WAKEN James B. Jowers, Steward's mate 1-c, of Route No. 3, Aiken, haa been released from the U. S. Navy'at the personnel separation center, Charleston.

Jowers spent 18 months in the Navy, 12 of which was in overseas He was in two battles with the enemy, his record shows. In civilian life, before entering the service, James was a cook. Welcome hack to Aiken County, old Salt! Aiken Co. Purchased 45 Thousand Dollars Worth Savings Bonds U. S.

Savings Bonds sales -for Aiken County during-the-month of May totalled according to report to Dr. B. C. McLean County Chairman, U. S.

Savings Bonds Division, by State Director W. Brooks Stuckey. Sales for Uw month of May for South Carolina totalled $3,838,464.50 and to-date are running at the annual rate of 944,556,000, which exceeds predictions made last December, but the present record-of sales for the State, ac- cording'to Mr. Stuckey, and for the nation, as expressed by the Treasury Department in Washington, are not high enough considering Hie op'ward trend prices with consumer goods remaining NEW CAROUNAS AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPION First Modulation Radio License Granted In State South Carolina's first commer-. cial frequency modulation radio station has been granted by the Federal Communications Commission, it is announced by the South Carolina Power Company, owners and operators of the installation located one mile nortn of Charleston on the Ashley River.

PRESENT DDT MOTON PICTURE TflDSDAYNGRT There will be an educational motion picture on the uses of DDT shows at 8:30 p. in the Aiken Courthouse, June 13', 1946. Farmers and townspeople are invited to DDT is another war time chemical developed to assist man in his war on insects. There is still a lot to be known about the full use of this product, but it has proven very effective in the control of many insects when properly used. The motion picture will Rive information as to what preparation and strength to use for the control of many insects, including crop pests, household and farm yard insects.

Be present and (rain the knowledge of the use of DDT from actual experiments and practices. Leopard Held As Accessory Anderson Case Ernest Cleo Leopard, of Gran- large man ran to the car and as Two-way Radios stsalled in twenty-five Company automobiles, light service trucks, and heavy construction trucks. The FCC has authorized the communications system to be exclusively like a police wMl be employed in moving 1 cl crews to mn locality where an emergency endanger, public health, safety, or property due to an interruption the electrical, gas. or transportation service the Company. Operating with the simplicity of a telephone, the new system is effective within a radius of more than fifty mfles from Charleston.

The 300-foot antenna tower ts on. the side of the new Plant Hagood. an electrical power plant being constructed by Company on the banks of the Ashley. NOTICE A Senior Life Saving Class will begin Monday, June 17, at 6:46 at the Outing Club. Anyone de airing transportation should be al the Red Cross office by 5:30 Monday afternoon.

Mis Alice Holley will instruct the class. The class will last two weeks and is held under the auspices of the Red Cross. Attention Veterans Intending To Enter School This Fall Veterans planning to school for the first time next fall under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act should apply immediately for their certificates of edibility, S. C. Groeschel, Manager of the Veterans Administration Center in Columbia, anounced today.

Warning of possible delays if too many applicants swamp VA offices at the last minute, Mr. Chairman Busbee Of Public Welfare States Formula Chairman T. T. Busbee of the Aiken of Public Welfare has received the formula approved by the State Board of Public Welfare for distribution of funds for old age and other types of aid to needy persons in the during the fiscal year beginning July 1. The money; is to be applied on the basis of actual as de- termined'by the county -welfare department under standards uniformly applied in all counties.

Each' county board -estimates the total need in the county, for each type assistance, expressed in JAILED SOLDIER CUIS SELF WHILE IN CUSTODY Warren E. Boy kin, soldier and patient at Oliver General pital, was picked up Saturday afternoon oh the streets of Aiken and charged with drunkenness. He was locked up in city jail and searched. Later the jailor noticed that the prisoner had cut. himself on the hands and right leg and then a more thorough search was made disclosin ga package of razor, blades hidden in his tie.

Army officers, from Augusta, Boyki.n back to that -city Left to right; Clarence Everett, WillianyBurdtluJter, Pro. Mike Lucas, James McNair, Carolinas's amateur champion, Charles TTiomasf-local dub champion. IE. MCGHEE DLLS SELF WITH SHOT GUN handle the matter by mail by writing the VA office jurisdiction ever the area in they reside for application forms. Completed forms may be returned by mail.

Veterans living in cities where VA offices are located may, of course, apply in person. Certificates will be mailed out by VA well in advance of the time they are needed. While VA rales do not require the to have certificate of Ity before enrolling at a many aehoota are asking i for their teville, was bound over for the grand jury as an accessory to the 'act and not as principal in the murder of Howard M. Anderson, of Warrenville, at a prelimi. nary hearing before Magistrate R.

W. Taylor Friday morninpjin the Aiken county courthouse. Mrs. Lorraine Anderson, wife of the slain man, was the principal -witness. She testified as to the telephone calls from Leopard which she" alleged he gave her tusband until until Saturday (May 25) sundown to get out of Warrenville or he (Leopard) would kill him, and that Leopard stated that he had wait.

ed two hours in the Anderson yard one night awaiting an opportuni ty to kill Anderson. Anderson also told, in detail, about events leading: the slaying of Anderson, including a fight between Leopard and the deceased in Glovenrille, May 24 that resulted in the arrest of Leopard and his bejng placed'under a peace bond. Dorsey K. counsel for Leopard, asked that both charges be dismissed on tion that the state had not made Magistrate Taylor ruled that suf- out a case on either charge, but ficient evidence had been introduced to have Leopard bound over to the grand jury as an accessory before the fact to the murder. Solicitor B.

D. Carter directed the state's cuse and was assisted by Henry Busbee. Charles Simons assisted Dorsey K. Lybran'd for the defense. Mrs.

Anderson testified to the events on the nipht of the shooting. Her husband and she at. tendeil prayer meeting ami later called to see the minister for. a few minutes. home they reparod to of coffee.

the stepped the pantry fr. Anderson was in the art of IT ill the coffee pcreolaln vheh the shots were fired. Mrs. Anderson stated that she rushed hac'c into the kitchen and attempted to hold him iiji, er he was too heavy and bad to let him down to the floor she ran. for help.

Mr, died, a few- minutes after thi shooting, she said. She also testi fiej to the bullet holes in the win dow and of seeing blood on the floor and back of the deceased Prince, a worker a he approached someone in the car flashed the lights on. The car left immediately and he heard someone say, ''Hell, step on it go!" He could not identify the man, but stated that there three persons in the car. Mr. Yy- brand, defense counsel, asked that this witness' testimony be stricken from the record as being irrevelent.

Magistrate Taylor let it C. C. Byrd, Langley magistrate, testified that he issued the warrant against Leopard. for assault and placed him under bond fol- and battery with intent to kill lowing the Glovervitle fight with Anderson. Sheriff Price Fallow testified that be made the 'investigation and arrest and that Leopard later had admitted that he told Ander.

'son over the telephone he would kill him it he "caught him in before sundown on a eer. tain date." A sworn H. E- McGhee, age about shot and killed himself with shot Run at his home near Warrenville about 1 p. m- 'Tuesday afternoon. Mr.

McGhee was employed at the Warrenville Mill. No funeral arrangements have completed. Are You Helping Lessen The Highway Accidents? 'financial terms, and the sum of these estimates in the forty-six counties is the total for the State. Available funds are then allocated for use in each county in the proportion of its need to the total need in the State." It is estimated that 75 percej of the actual need of each pient of old age assistance can given- during the next year, whjere- as only 70 percent was possible in the year now closing. Reduced percentages be necessary in awards to dependent children, to the needy blind, and to handicapped persons.

While 45 percent of the need in dependent children cases has been awarded this year, only 40 cent can be given after July 1. Needy blind persons will receive 90 percent as against 100 percent in the current year. General relief recipients can be given 40 percent of actual need. These reduced percentages are necessary because of substantial increases in the number of persons who are expected to need help the year, due in large measure to discontinuance, of servicemen's and to reduced of women and Saturday afternoon, after having been-notified by the local police of his arrest. UNEDPOFAiEEN JUNIOR ALL TEAM GIVEN statement of Dr.

J. C. Pierce, of Graniteville, describing wounds and cause of Anderson's death was read at the hearing and admitted is testu mony. Whether Leopard may be re' on bond will have to be de. ided by Circuit Judge E.

H. Hen- lerson of Bamberg. In the mean ail, where his wife has also'been ime Leopard is in the county icld following a coroner's verdict hat Howard M. Anderson shot to death Wednesday night (May 29) by a pistol "in the hands of Mrs. Ruth Leopard." Street Department And Park Employees Salary Increased Meeting in (he City Council chamber of the Aiken Municipal 1 building the City death Council reported the following: May 1 balance receipts tluriniT month for a total of were leaving a total of cash on hand ns of June 1 in the amount of $26,942.38.

The resignation of Solma K. Ilolloy from the Hoard of Health was accepted by- council. Cole Bleaso Carpenter was elected as an extra policeman. The council voted to increase the salaries of members of the street department and Park com- S. H.

Swint, President of the Craniteville Company has compiled an interesting lot of figues show, injr the number and kinds of accidents which pccurcd upon the highways of the state. During the four months follow. ing V-J Day there was an (for the entire state) increase in accidents, a increase in pedestrain death over the same four months in 1944. With such alarming increases the average citiien who drives out upon the highway may well conclude that he is just taking his life, and that of those ridinu wnth him, in his hands when he takes the wheel. He may well ask himself also, "How does Aiken County show up in the analysis of this situation.

"Let's take a look at the following tables, taken from the Highway Department's Annual Report and the Joint Legislative Committee's report. It will throw much litrht upon this question. The number of deaths and ac- for Ar.vcn county for th ieiKht year period iMS-lOla show? i Aiken number in the list, with idents, I.T.! and in of elderly sons. and handicapped- per- The first frame of the elimination to determine the -winner of the Third league in South Carolina will be played at Eustis Park at 4:30 p. m.

today with Clinton as Aiken's opponent. The Aiken entry is composed of the following players: Herbert'Cohen, Charles Bobby Kriipht. Bobby Cook, Stephen Greene and Hugh Ansley of Aiken, Marvin and Clarence Napier, Billy Holley and Gerald Morris; front Graniteville. Coach W. A.

Cooper has announced today's starting lineup as folows: Rucker, Cohen, Knight, 1st. Cupp. 2nd, Johnson, SR; Holley, 3rd. Norris, I. M.

Napier, cf; and Bobby- Cook, rf. FUNERAL FOR JOHN BROOKERSCOTT HELDATVAUCLUSE Funeral service for John. Brooker Scott, 65, were held at the Vaucluse Baptist church- Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock with the Rev. J. W.

Hammond officiating. Interment followed in Vaucluse cemetery. Survivors include one son, George Edward Scott, of the U. S. army, stationed in Germany, and one daughter.

Miss Mary Earlene Scott, Belvedere and a number of nieces and nephews. W. P. HAGOOD SAYS GOOD BYE TO NAVY James Wilson Mooney Funeral Held At Ellen ton Tuesday James (Jim) Wilson Mooney. 91, a retired farmed who died at his home near Etlenton Monday morning, was buried in the Park Church cemetery, Tuesday afternoon, following, services conducted by the Rev.

Robert D. Parkinson. Mr. Mooney was one of the oldest residents of this community and was active as a member of the Christian church. His wife.

Mary Mooney died several years ago. Survivors are: five nieces and nephews, Mrs. Lucy Muns. Elle'n- ton, and Mrs. Alex Baxley, of Augusta- Arthur Mooney, Ellenton; Pave Mnoney, Thomson, anil Mooncy, Dunbar- itoit, S.

C. Warrenville, testified that he liy, ig i on by 50 cents a day. ed near the Anderson, home and! on the. evening of the shooting he' on the steps of '-his porch playing with his puppies. Mw a ear go up the street, arwad, turn Wf gut after keariitg three ahvte Don't forget to attend the American Legion Junior baseball this afternoon at 4:30 at Park when Aiken The population of the county was jiiven as The' in was I in 111 -leath rate was 22.0 for in HIM.

Th" average is eiititl was and the stand. Kit. Tin- vehicle reinst ration as of for Aiken enmity vas: irivtn as The total late milage was miles and he improved' highway mileage 257 miles. From these fijiiirt-s Mr. Swint irivcd at these facts about Aiken county: It is llth.

in'population. inih in total vehicle rcRistra- I tion. 2nd in'state mileage. in density of traffic at any ant point (ihis was given as in Warrenville, on U. S.

Wffcway 1 mile east to Aiktn as 2.888 and in Warrenville, SW to as vehicles observed passing Win field P. Ha-rood, radioman S. Navy received his I honorable discharge from the per. vice. is tho son of Mr.

and K. i The- Aiken man served two years in the HOI vice. months of. this time was spent overseas. i to the American theair-l Pacific-Asiatic-i phillippine and China Liberation ribbons.

HnRrtod! has been a student, at the University of Siijith Carolina and Citadel tional activities this comjnc am! hopes resume his cducn. sossiou. City Council Receives Report From Chief Sprawls pr.Vfiiti-,1 .1. M. Smau-i report, t.

certain doriag the average (Continued on page eight) Release Two On $500 Bail Each; Adultery Charge Mrs. Ethel Zeielcr. former wife of the late Edward L. Bennett, has been released from the Aiken county jail where she had held for-about a Bail was fixed at $500. Both Mrs.

Zeigier and J. B. Hydrick had been charged with adultery. HydriA waa released on a similar bail. He asked for an immediate bearing tfce charges.

Traffic V'K. la; Driving JafHiencf liquor Disorderly Drunk anil eoniiuct I'lain (hunk law. Potty larceny Orand larcr-ii lif)i Auto theft 04 25 1 I 00 OIJ 01 I' ino.i. ir veiiick- withoui" nuiiiber'nf arrest month j.io been Total number of complaints for month ..088 Total amount of cash fines $1,390. 75 Days served on the gang or in County jail Cases-suspended by Cases dismissed Kecereer.